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Definition of Man friday
1. Noun. The most helpful assistant.
Definition of Man friday
1. Noun. A right-hand man ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Man Friday
Literary usage of Man friday
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The life and ... adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1884)
"My man Friday being next to me, I bade him ride up, and see what was the matter.
... It was happy for the poor man that it was my man Friday; for he, ..."
2. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1903)
"a look at those patterns," when I heard the rattle of gravel flung from flying
feet, and saw man friday tear around the house, up the porch steps, ..."
3. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"A sort of Robinson Crusoe, who baud a chimpanzee for hie "man Friday." The story
relates the adventures and sufferings of an English hermit named Philip ..."
4. The British Novelists: With an Essay, and Prefaces, Biographical and Critical by Barbauld (Anna Letitia), Anna Letitia Aikin Barbauld (1820)
"—What is that ? said I. Why, says he, it is, that you will leave your man Friday
with me, to be my interpreter to them, and to assist me; for without some ..."
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